Day: January 14, 2021
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Cox Automotive acquires computer vision company Fyusion
Cox Automotive has acquired Fyusion, a computer vision company and provider of immersive vehicle imaging solutions for automotive and other industries. This acquisition will deepen the collaboration between Manheim – a Cox subsidiary – and Fyusion, which have worked together for years to give clients the wholesale industry’s best mobile imaging and condition capture tools…
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Silicon Valley Robotics awards two honors to SICK
The Silicon Valley Robotics group awarded SICK two honors as a part of the SVR’s inaugural Good Robot Industry Awards. This program celebrates robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence that helps to solve global challenges. SVR is a non-profit industry cluster and coalition of robotics companies and startups, representing the robotics cluster in northern California. The…
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Cheetah Mobile launches ‘smart vending robot’
Cheetah Mobile has launched its intelligent vending robot, FanBot, to international markets. In contrast to traditional vending machines, the FanBot can autonomously identify and approach potential customers in complex and high-traffic environments, such as shopping malls, retail stores, gyms, cinemas, libraries, hotel lobbies and airport terminals. Through this targeted and proactive customer engagement, FanBot is…
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Argonaut Manufacturing Services turns to Bright Machines to accelerate and scale production
Bright Machines and Argonaut Manufacturing Services have agreed a partnership whereby Bright Machines will automate Argonaut’s unique assembly process. Argonaut, based in Carlsbad, California, is a contract manufacturing organization offering a host of customized manufacturing and supply chain solutions for life science, molecular diagnostics, and biopharmaceutical companies, including formulation, filling, lyophilization, and kitting, as well…
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Hyundai’s acquisition of Boston Dynamics can reinforce its position in smart mobility, says GlobalData
Hyundai Motor Group has agreed to acquire approximately 80 percent stake in American engineering and robotics design company Boston Dynamics from SoftBank Group for $1.1bn. The move can fuel Hyundai’s long-term goal to become a smart mobility solutions provider by leveraging Boston Dynamics’ robots such as bipedal and quadruped equipped with 3D vision, navigation and…
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Motional and Lyft to launch fully driverless rideshare service
Motional, a driverless technology developer, and rideshare service provider Lyft have agreed joint plans to launch a multimarket robotaxi service in major US cities, beginning in 2023. Motional says its next generation, fully driverless vehicles will be integrated, operationalized, and implemented on the Lyft network. The two companies claim this agreement marks the largest robotaxi…
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Software-based PLCs pose challenge to traditional hardware infrastructure
By Sharmila Annaswamy, IoT Analytics Software is increasingly replacing hardware in industrial environments. Software-based programmable logic controllers (Soft PLCs) today are reliable, powerful and flexible. Soft PLC adoption is expected to double between 2019 and 2025, posing an “innovator’s dilemma” for incumbent industrial automation vendors. Actions taken by incumbents will prevent significant disruption in the…
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Siemens provides electric charging points for bus depot in Hamburg
Siemens Smart Infrastructure won a major contract from Hamburger Hochbahn, the largest local transport provider in the Hanseatic city. Siemens will equip two of the six carports at the Alsterdorf bus depot with a total of 96 charging points as well as medium and low-voltage technology. Operations are scheduled to start in summer 2021. With…
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How Automation Increases the Effectiveness of an Organization
In today’s tech-driven world, more and more companies are resorting to automation and taking help from relevant software programs to increase effectiveness and boost performance. While some still consider it a threat, automation can enhance your company’s progress if used in the right way. Software robots and machine learning are also a part of automation…
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What Barriers Still Impede Electric Vehicles?
Electric vehicles have been with us for a long time. It’s only recently that they’re being touted as a serious replacement for the internal combustion engine and a (partial) answer to our climate crisis. The UK government says that it’ll ban the sale of petrol and diesel vehicles by 2030 – and you can reasonably…